Provincetown Public Art Summer 2026

A Summer Long Festival of Murals & Sculpture curated by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation.

Each summer, local and regional artists transform Provincetown’s streets, waterfront, and public spaces with original works that celebrate creativity, place, and community. From MacMillan Pier and Commercial Street to unexpected locations throughout town, these murals, sculptures, and site-specific installations invite residents and visitors alike to experience Provincetown through a new lens.

Each artwork offers a unique perspective on the town’s history, culture, landscape, and future, contributing to a growing open-air gallery that is free and accessible to all. The festival is curated and funded by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation with support from the Town of Provincetown Department of Public Works, the Office of the Pier Manager, and our generous sponsors, whose partnership helps bring public art into the everyday life of the community.

We invite you to explore the works, meet the artists, and celebrate the evolving story of public art in Provincetown.

Installed at the end of MacMillan Wharf, The Lookout honors the memory of artist, benefactor, and community leader Nancy Rahnasto Osborne. A founding supporter of the Provincetown Public Art Foundation, Nancy played a vital role in shaping the organization during its early years and made lasting contributions to the cultural life of the Outer Cape. Cast in bronze using the lost wax process, this piece embodies the energy and imagination that defined Nancy’s artistic practice. The sculpture’s abstract form feels both calm and alert, poised at rest yet ready to spring into motion. Intersecting planes weave together in a playful balance, creating a dynamic three-dimensional composition that shifts as viewers move around it. Positioned at the water’s edge, the work invites contemplation while celebrating curiosity, movement, and discovery. One of Nancy’s final large-scale works, The Lookout stands as a lasting tribute to her creativity, generosity, and enduring impact on Provincetown’s artistic community.

Valerie Isaacs has been painting outdoors since 1989. Before settling in Provincetown in 2017, she lived and exhibited in Spain, Charleston, South Carolina, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in Architecture from Penn State University and studied Urban Design in Rome through the University of Washington. Isaacs trained in drawing and etching in Seville, painting at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, and with artist Douglas Balentine in Charleston. Since 2010, she has taught drawing, figure drawing, and landscape painting to adult students and currently teaches at Castle Hill Center for the Arts and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her work explores the intersection of landscape, color, and abstraction within representational painting.

Women Fishing was painted in May in a studio generously provided by the Fine Arts Work Center. Created specifically for the Provincetown Public Art Summer festival, the mural gave Valerie Isaacs the opportunity to explore a new direction in her practice by working at a much larger scale, focusing on the figure, and painting in acrylic. The composition celebrates the strength and rhythm of women fishing through Isaacs’ expressive use of color and light.

Bert Yarborough is a painter, printmaker, and educator whose vibrant, expressive work has been exhibited internationally and collected by museums across the United States. A former Fellow and staff member at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Program, and the New Hampshire State Arts Council, among others.

Time is a panoramic painted collage that brings together imagery, marks, shapes, and colors drawn from Yarborough’s artistic practice over the past five decades. Inspired by the landscapes of the Lower Cape and places that have shaped his life and work, the mural weaves together personal and universal references into a dynamic visual language.

Jay Critchley is a conceptual, multidisciplinary performance artist and writer whose visual work and environmental activism have gained international recognition. His projects, exhibitions, and performances have been presented across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, and Colombia. Known for his provocative public interventions and proposals, Jay has received extensive media coverage for the way his art intersects with social and political issues. In 2018, he delivered a TEDx Talk titled Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation. Jay lives and works in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The Cold Warmth is a public installation that combines the U.S. flag with the flags of other nations to explore shifting global relationships, national identity, and contemporary geopolitics. Inspired by the changing light that has drawn artists to Provincetown for generations, the work invites viewers to reflect on questions of patriotism, leadership, and our place in an interconnected world.

Yvette Drury Dubinsky is a multimedia artist based in Truro, MA, New York, NY, and St. Louis, MO. Her work spans printmaking, painting, alternative photography, and mixed media, often exploring themes of housing, migration, and transformation through repurposed materials. She exhibits regularly at Farm Projects in Wellfleet, AIR Gallery in New York, and Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. Dubinsky’s work has been shown across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and is included in the collections of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among others. She has participated in the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program and held a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She holds an MFA from the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also earned an MA in Sociology.

This piece is a digital reproduction of a large-scale collage constructed from painted, printed, and manipulated boxes, along with other made and found detritus. The layered composition brings together Dubinsky’s signature use of repurposed materials to explore place, memory, and the shifting structures of home.

Sam Fields is a sculptor and educator whose work uses textiles to explore themes of power, identity, and community. Rooted in craft as both philosophy and practice, her work spans sculpture, performance, and participatory installations. Sam holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where she currently teaches sculpture. Her work has been supported by grants from the City of Boston, Now + There, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, among others. She is the founder of Cloth Collaborative, a studio and workshop dedicated to textile-based artmaking and community engagement.

Jerome Greene is a Provincetown-based painter whose work reflects the enduring legacy of the Provincetown Art Colony. Drawing inspiration from the rich landscapes and vibrant artistic community of the Outer Cape, Jerome works primarily in a plein air style, capturing the beauty and atmosphere of Provincetown through figures, landscapes, and studio paintings. Influenced by the Provincetown masters and shaped by years of study and collaboration with fellow artists, his work is included in numerous private and corporate collections. He lives and maintains his studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The mural by Jerome Greene features Captain Jack’s Wharf in the background, anchoring the composition in Provincetown’s iconic waterfront. In the foreground, pages from Jerome’s sketchbook—drawings of local figures from his life—appear to scatter across the scene as if caught in a gust of wind. The mural blends personal history with a sense of place, honoring both the people and the landscape that inspire Greene’s work.

Bob Henry is a celebrated figure painter whose work focuses on groups of figures and the dynamic relationships between them, often explored through drawing. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, Henry studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown, as well as with Ad Reinhardt and Kurt Seligmann at Brooklyn College, where he is Professor Emeritus. He has lived and worked in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard and currently resides in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with his wife and fellow artist Selina Trieff.

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. Kahn & Selesnick have participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions and have work in over 20 collections, including the Boston Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Press, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies, and 2 books with Candela Books, One Hundred Views of the Drowning World and Dr. Falke’s Oraculum. They have lectured and led residencies world-wide including for Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program at Princeton University and at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and have received commissions and grants from NASA and the Pollock Krasner Foundation among others.

Lena McCarthy is an American visual artist. Her practice primarily consists of painting, making large scale murals and more recently, three-dimensional objects of wood and ceramics. Inspired by the natural world, contemporary illustration and her personal experiences, Mac’s work combines figurative symbols with abstracted forms to create metaphorical spaces that contemplate mysterious aspects of the world around us. In 2016, Lena began painting in the streets while living in Santiago, Chile and has since continued to paint in public spaces across the world. She has participated in numerous mural festivals and been an artist in residence with La Sierra Foundation (2023 Colombia) Dripped on the Road traveling residency (2021 USA), and Watershed Studios (2019 Ireland). Lena holds a BFA in painting from Boston University. She is a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, the Blanche E. Coleman award and the Mass MoCA Assets for Artists grant. Lena lives and works in Western Massachusetts.

Sky Power is a contemporary painter based in Provincetown, MA since 1976. In the early seventies, Power attended Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle, WA, and was an artist-in-residence at the Pulpit Rock Artist Community in Woodstock, CT. Power studied with Hans Hofmann students, Paul Resika, Selina Trieff, and Robert Henry, and has been an exhibiting artist at Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA, since 2004. For the past four decades, Power has exhibited at various galleries and museums including George Billis Gallery in NYC, the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman; New Britain Museum of American Art, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Wichita Art Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cahoon Museum, and Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The artist’s work is included in the permanent collections of the U.S. Embassy, Valletta, Malta, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

James Everett Stanley is a New England-based painter and Associate Professor of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. He has exhibited his work recently at LaMontagne Gallery, Boston; Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; Provincetown Arts Society, Provincetown; EXPO Chicago; Art Basel Miami Beach. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, Stanley is the recipient of fellowships from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work is included in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.